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Dalhatu Adamu

Dalhatu Adamu

Bayero University Kano, Nigeria

Title: Effect of tobacco addiction on youth development in Nigeria: A fact or farce

Biography

Biography: Dalhatu Adamu

Abstract

Background: The burden of tobacco addiction on youth development in Nigeria continues to grow with significant impact on health and major social, human rights and economic consequences in all countries of the world, with  Nigeria being the third leading country among low income settings.  Globally, tobacco addiction has been estimated to be much higher in men within their reproductive ages as oppose to their relative cohort. Aim: Evidently, there is paucity of information on major health indices in Nigeria on the effect of tobacco addiction  on youth development . This created a  social mishaps on whether tobacco addiction has significant effect on youth development as a promising evidence to bringing it to a  halt. Therefore, this paper aimed at evaluating the effect of tobacco addiction in Nigeria particularly among youth in their reproductive ages. The paper reviewed  scientific literature related to the effect of tobacco addiction on youth development in Nigeria and  from around the world  that were published both locally  and internationally. Methods: Various studies employed nonrandomized clinical trials on evaluating the effect of tobacco smoking on youth development and DMS-IV&V scale were employed for specification of associated effect. For pragmatic reasons, the research team conducted a nonrandomized, pretest-posttest, controlled group study in most of the reviewed papers. The  forensic  therapists participated in the activities and closely observed changes in behaviors of the experimental youth cohort and the results were compared with the control group. Results :  The results of various reviewed papers  found that  tobacco addiction on youth development were found  significantly associated with impulsive behaviors, mental disorder   and 3×times higher risk of premature death than their  non addicted cohort r=0.612,P<0.01,r=0.544,P=0.000<0.001, respectively. On discharge, the patients were evaluated for effect size (ES) up to 0.61) within both groups.

Conclusion: It was concluded that the effect of tobacco on youth development is a fact and not farce. Therefore, the integration of adjuvant pharmacotherapy  among youth with tobacco addiction  in our local settings is recommended .